LAHORE: Scientists while highlighting various reasons that cause cancer in human bodies talked about how various types of cancers can be treated.
They were speaking on the second day of International Conference of Research on Oncology and Cancer Sciences (IC-ROCS)-2020 and Pakistan Cancer Awareness Programme (P-CAP) here on Friday.
Punjab University (PU) Pro-Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Saleem Mazhar inaugurated the opening session at University College of Pharmacy, Allama Iqbal Campus. PU Faculty of Pharmacy dean, Prof Dr Nadeem Irfan Bukhari, Prof Dr Khalid Hussain, Prof Dr Farooq Afzal, Prof Dr Abul Fazal, Shaikh Zaid Hospital Head of Surgery and President SOS-PK Prof Dr Haroon Javed Majeed, MPA Sadia Suhail, Punjab government’s focal person Muhammad Madni, Dr Zeeshan Danish, the scientists, faculty members and researchers from different institutions participated in the event.
Prof Dr Farooq Afzal delivered a talk on cancer care and early diagnosis of the disease and warned if cancer was not diagnosed early, it could cause serious life threatening problems for the patients.
Prof Dr Abul Fazal talked about red signals of cancer and explained how different signs and symptoms of the patients highlight this disease and why screening of different body organs was important to prevent it from spreading all over human body.
Prof Dr Haroon Javed Majeed said they had regular tumor board meetings at Shaikh Zayed Hospital where cases were presented before multidisciplinary team of surgeons, oncologists, radiologists and pharmacists to advise best possible strategy to cancer patients. He added, “Dr Zeeshan Danish also became the member the board and we will get maximum benefit from his expertise to diagnose cancer patients in Shaikh Zaid Hospital.”
Prof Dr Saleem Mazhar said pharmacy profession had a great potential to grow. He added that such healthy activities and innovative ideas for disease awareness would surely motivate the students to be competent pharmacists in future.
He also advised young pharmacists to gain maximum learning from the scientists who were presenting their research and sharing their experiences.
The speakers also lauded the efforts of Dr Danish to bring his idea of P-CAP in reality for spreading awareness among general public and cancer patients to save their lives. A question-answer session was also held.
‘Backlog of 1.7m vehicle number plates’: Punjab Secretary for Excise & Taxation Wajihullah Kundi on Friday told the Lahore High Court that there was a backlog of 1.7 million computerised number plates and 530,000 smart cards.
Mr Kundi said the tender for manufacturing of new computerised licence plates was cancelled due to depreciation of rupee against dollar. Now a project was in progress for the manufacturing of the licence plates with the assistance of ministry of defence production, he added. Responding to queries of Chief Justice Mamoon Rashid Sheikh, the secretary said it could take six months to start production of the plates after an approval of the tender from the provincial cabinet.
He said that traffic police had already been advised not to issue fine tickets to commuters for unavailability of authorised computerised number plates. Mr Kundi told the court that amendment was being introduced to motor vehicles rules to legalise e-challan by Punjab Safe City Authority.
Date to apply for college posts extended : The Higher Education Department (HED) Punjab has extended late date for submission of applications for the posts of director colleges till February 7, 2020.
Earlier, the last date to apply for the posts was January 24. Sources in the HED Punjab said unexpectedly a low number of applications were received, therefore, the department decided to extend the date.
